Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists

This book explores the history of the unsung hero in music from the past century, a photographic celebration of the guitar effects pedal. Here are featured over 100 interviews with renowned musicians, including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett. Ever since the 1960s, fuzz boxes, wah-wahs, phase shifters, and a vast array of guitar effects pedals have profoundly shaped the sound of music as we know it. Inside are photos of not just pedals but the pedals used by history’s guitar hero such as Jimi Hendrix, whose life and career evolved with the vanguard of the fuzzface, Frank Zappa, Steve Van, grunge and punk movements, and many more. The book will explore the basics of pedals’ sonic profiles but is more focused on the history and songs that these occupy in popular culture even today.

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